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This is the clearest, most powerful summons yet, TO ALL OF US, to restore the American story to its rightful, vital place in American life and in how we educate our children. It couldn’t be more timely and important. David McCullough
Graham Greene quote: "God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good."
God save us always,' I said 'from the innocent and the good. Graham Greene
Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad. Harper Lee
How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. W. H. Auden
There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been. Annie Dillard
Neal A. Maxwell quote: "Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues..."
Let us have integrity and not write checks with our tongues which our conduct cannot cash. Neal A. Maxwell
Harper Lee quote: "Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we..."
Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win. Harper Lee
The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy; The books that people talk about we never can recall; And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all. Carolyn Wells
I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of... Jane Austen
Harper Lee quote: "There are some men in this world who are born to do our..."
There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them. Harper Lee
You should never be afraid of people... such fear can destroy us completely. You've simply got to get rid of it, if you want to turn into someone decent. You understand that, don't you? Herman Hesse
Well, these sad and hopeless obstacles are welcome in one sense, for they enable us to look with indifference upon the cruel satires that Fate loves to indulge in.- Eustacia in The Return of the Native Thomas Hardy
Virgil quote: "Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious."
Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious. Virgil
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they... F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these are just the hazards of being free. David Foster Wallace

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